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A review by tosodoula
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft
2.0
I did not enjoy reading this. I kept thinking 'this is nonsense. Utter nonsense', and then I felt bad that I kept thinking this, because Lovecraft wrote the Quest of Unknown Kadath in the 1920s and maybe if I had read it then I would've been impressed by his imagination, but the absolute truth of it is, I am reading this in 2020 and this is nonsense to me.
The plot is nearly non-existent, the protagonist is the most unintresting one and the world-building feels like Lovecraft stuck with his first rough outline of it. At no point was I engaged and I couldn't care less about the actual quest. It felt like there was no point to it, like Carter could die and then the story could start following a random cat and I wouldn't even notice. Or maybe I would've because I cared about the cats more.
Mostly, I think, it's the absence of dialogue and detailed interaction scenes that made this feel like a summary of a story and a complete story by itself.
The plot is nearly non-existent, the protagonist is the most unintresting one and the world-building feels like Lovecraft stuck with his first rough outline of it. At no point was I engaged and I couldn't care less about the actual quest. It felt like there was no point to it, like Carter could die and then the story could start following a random cat and I wouldn't even notice. Or maybe I would've because I cared about the cats more.
Mostly, I think, it's the absence of dialogue and detailed interaction scenes that made this feel like a summary of a story and a complete story by itself.